Tania Q. Vu, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine
  • Neuroscience Graduate Program, School of Medicine
  • Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, School of Medicine
  • OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, School of Medicine
  • Program in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, School of Medicine

Biography

B.S. Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D. Vision Science (Neuroscience) University of California, Berkeley

Areas of interest

  • Nanomedicine
  • Molecular/ Single Cell Imaging
  • Cancer Screening and Diagnostics
  • Single Molecule Tracking in Cancer and Neural Cells

Publications

Selected publications

  • Mapping cancer signaling networks by an integrated multiplexed tissue imaging platform. Esteban Roberts,Thomas Jacob,Karl Garsha1, Damien Ramunno-Johnson, Franklin Ventura , James Korkola , Julia Ashworth-Sharpe , Donald Johnson , Christopher L. Corless , Megan Troxell , Michael Barnes , Joe W. Gray , Kandavel Shanmugam,& Tania Vu. Technology 04, 174 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1142/S2339547816500060

Publications

  • Molecular-Scale Dynamics of Long Range Retrograde Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Transport Shaped by Cellular Spatial Context

    Frontiers in Neuroscience
    1. Anke Vermehren-Schmaedick
    2. Mark J. Olah
    3. Damien Ramunno-Johnson
    4. Keith A. Lidke
    5. Michael S. Cohen
    6. Tania Q. Vu
  • Hepatocytic expression of human sodium-taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide enables hepatitis B virus infection of macaques /631/326/596/1550 /631/326/596/2555 /631/326/596/2557 article

    Nature communications
    1. Benjamin J. Burwitz
    2. Jochen M. Wettengel
    3. Martin A. Mück-Häusl
    4. Marc Ringelhan
    5. Chunkyu Ko
    6. Marvin M. Festag
    7. Katherine B. Hammond
    8. Mina Northrup
    9. Benjamin N. Bimber
    10. Thomas Jacob
    11. Jason S. Reed
    12. Reed Norris
    13. Byung Park
    14. Sven Moller-Tank
    15. Knud Esser
    16. Justin M. Greene
    17. Helen L. Wu
    18. Shaheed Abdulhaqq
    19. Gabriela Webb
    20. William F. Sutton
    21. Alex Klug
    22. Tonya Swanson
    23. Alfred W. Legasse
    24. Tania Q. Vu
    25. Aravind Asokan
    26. Nancy L. Haigwood
    27. Ulrike Protzer
    28. Jonah B. Sacha
  • Multiplexed imaging reveals heterogeneity of PI3K/MAPK network signaling in breast lesions of known PIK3CA genotype

    Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
    1. Thomas Jacob
    2. Joe W. Gray
    3. Megan Troxell
    4. Tania Q. Vu
  • Ultrasensitive proteomic quantitation of cellular signaling by digitized nanoparticle-protein counting

    Scientific Reports
    1. Thomas Jacob
    2. Anupriya Agarwal
    3. Damien Ramunno-Johnson
    4. Thomas O'Hare
    5. Mehmet Gönen
    6. Jeffrey W. Tyner
    7. Brian J. Druker
    8. Tania Q. Vu
  • Heterogeneous intracellular trafficking dynamics of brain-derived neurotrophic factor complexes in the neuronal soma revealed by single quantum dot tracking

    PloS one
    1. Anke Vermehren-Schmaedick
    2. Wesley Krueger
    3. Thomas Jacob
    4. Damien Ramunno-Johnson
    5. Agnieszka Balkowiec
    6. Keith A. Lidke
    7. Tania Q. Vu
  • Aqueous red-emitting silicon nanoparticles for cellular imaging

    Journal of Materials Research
    1. Sheng Kuei Chiu
    2. Beth A. Manhat
    3. William J.I. De Benedetti
    4. Anna L. Brown
    5. Katye Fichter
    6. Tania Vu
    7. Micah Eastman
    8. Jun Jiao
    9. Andrea M. Goforth
  • One-step melt synthesis of water-soluble, photoluminescent, surface-oxidized silicon nanoparticles for cellular imaging applications

    Chemistry of Materials
    1. Beth A. Manhat
    2. Anna L. Brown
    3. Labe A. Black
    4. J. B.Alexander Ross
    5. Katye Fichter
    6. Tania Vu
    7. Erik Richman
    8. Andrea M. Goforth
  • Kinetics of G-protein-coupled receptor endosomal trafficking pathways revealed by single quantum dots

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    1. Katye M. Fichter
    2. Marc Flajolet
    3. Paul Greengard
    4. Tania Q. Vu
  • Spatial structure and diffusive dynamics from single-particle trajectories using spline analysis

    Biophysical Journal
    1. Brian R. Long
    2. Tania Q. Vu
  • Distinct extracellular matrix microenvironments of progenitor and carotid endothelial cells

    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A
    1. Keri B. Vartanian
    2. Sean J. Kirkpatrick
    3. Owen J.T. McCarty
    4. Tania Q. Vu
    5. Stephen R. Hanson
    6. Monica T. Hinds
  • Quantitative analysis of multivesicular bodies (MVBs) in the hypoglossal nerve

    Journal of Comparative Neurology
    1. Amy L. Altick
    2. Larisa M. Baryshnikova
    3. Tania Q. Vu
    4. Christopher S. Von Bartheld
  • Quantum dot hybrid gel blotting

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
    1. Tania Q. Vu
    2. Hong Yan Liu
  • Single particle quantum dot imaging achieves ultrasensitive detection capabilities for Western immunoblot analysis

    ACS Nano
    1. Benjamin Scholl
    2. Hong Yan Liu
    3. Brian R. Long
    4. Owen J.T. McCarty
    5. Thomas O'Hare
    6. Brian J. Druker
    7. Tania Q. Vu
  • Fabrication of submicron IrO2 nanowire array biosensor platform by conventional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor process

    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
    1. Fengyan Zhang
    2. Bruce Ulrich
    3. Ravi K. Reddy
    4. Vinu L. Venkatraman
    5. Shalini Prasad
    6. Tania Q. Vu
    7. Sheng Teng Hsu
  • Ligand-bound quantum dot probes for studying the molecular scale dynamics of receptor endocytic trafficking in live cells

    ACS Nano
    1. Sujata Sundara Rajan
    2. Hong Yan Liu
    3. Tania Q. Vu
  • Microcontact printing of quantum dot bioconjugate arrays for localized capture and detection of biomolecules

    Biomedical Microdevices
    1. Varun P. Pattani
    2. Chunfei Li
    3. Tejal A. Desai
    4. Tania Q. Vu
  • Identification of quantum dot bioconjugates and cellular protein co-localization by hybrid gel blotting

    Nano Letters
    1. Hong Yan Liu
    2. Tania Q. Vu
  • Quantum dots monitor TrkA receptor dynamics in the interior of neural PC12 Cells

    Nano Letters
    1. Sujata Sundara Rajan
    2. Tania Q. Vu
  • Activation of membrane receptors by a neurotransmitter conjugate designed for surface attachment

    Biomaterials
    1. Tania Q. Vu
    2. Sarwat Chowdhury
    3. Niraj J. Muni
    4. Haohua Qian
    5. Robert F. Standaert
    6. David R. Pepperberg